Poland

Firm overview

Kulikowska & Kulikowski (K&K) is a Polish boutique IP law firm comprehensively and effectively assisting its clients in protecting their intellectual property in Poland and on international markets. Its goal is to provide individual, proactive and business-oriented IP advice.

Being well-equipped to manage the full spectrum of IP protection – trademarks, patents, designs, copyrights, domain names, unfair competition, or anti-counterfeiting – the expertise of K&K covers such areas as setting IP strategy, filing and prosecution, portfolio management and well as litigation.

Its particular specialty is resolving disputes, also through mediation, and it willingly undertakes the most challenging IP litigation cases.

K&K represents its diverse pool of clients before the Polish Patent Office, European Union Intellectual Property Office, World Intellectual Property Organization, and the European Patent Office. Partnering with local IP firms around the world allows K&K to handle clients’ portfolios globally in a comprehensive manner.

The law firm is a team of patent and trademark attorneys, advocates and attorneys-at-law supported junior lawyers, specialists and paralegals. Their professionalism, experience and creative approach always center on finding the best solutions to meet clients’ needs.

Intensively benefiting from IT tools, K&K does not leave clients with raw data, but always offers them an expert view. What distinguishes it is preparation of tailor-made solutions for clients, allowing them to maintain the highest level of protection. Trademark and design applications are developed cross-departmentally, by members of the prosecution and litigation teams as well as specialists in technical fields working together, so as not only to obtain the desired protection but also to allow its full enforcement later.

K&K comprehensively serves international clients across diverse business areas, including the largest multinational corporations operating in e.g. alcohol, pharmaceutical, FMCG, telecommunications and luxury goods industries.

A significant group of clients are also Polish entrepreneurs from the SME sector, whom K&K supports in building a strong position on the Polish and foreign markets, advising on how to protect and maximize IP assets.

Effectiveness, expertise and professional qualifications of Kulikowska & Kulikowski as one Poland’s leading law firms in the IP protection sector is confirmed by numerous and regular recommendations and distinctions in international industry rankings, such as IP STARS, IAM PATENT 1000, WTR 1000, Who is Who Legal, Legal 500, Chambers , The Patent Lawet, Innovation & IP or Client Choice by Lexology.

Firm overview

We are a comprehensive law firm specialising in advising the creative, media, new technology, life science, and science and business innovation sectors.

The combination of the many years of diverse experience of managing partners Maciej Slusarek, Maciej Kubiak and Tomasz Pieczyk – with the fresh perspective of junior partners Hanna Marcinkiewicz, Katarzyna Lejman, Katarzyna Ciepiela, Paweł Myrda, Piotr Nikołajuk and Maciej Dudek – and their teams, is a guarantee of comprehensive legal services for our firm’s clients.

We support representatives of the creative industries at every stage of their projects. We have completed several hundred projects: audiovisual, related to new technologies, personal data, industrial property, and commercialisation of research. We also have experience in serving clients from the pharmaceutical, pharmacy, and investment fund industries, as well as in restructuring and M&A transactions. The DNA of our law firm also includes cases related to the protection of the reputation of individuals and companies, and representation in disputes concerning intellectual property, unfair competition, personal rights and in commercial matters.

One of the pillars of the firm is the IP/TMT team, repeatedly awarded and recommended in Chambers, IP Stars, Legal 500, and Media Law International, among others. We are a legal partner who understands business and effectively supports clients in finding solutions to the challenges they face in a dynamically changing world.

Firm overview

POLSERVICE is one of the leading IP firms in Poland and in Central Europe with many years of professional experience. The firm has been operating on the market since 1964.

POLSERVICE successfully represents its international and domestic clients before the Polish Patent Office (PPO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and other institutions.

POLSERVICE provides comprehensive IP services at both national and EU/EPO level, including preliminary searches, prosecution of patent, trademark and design applications, maintenance and renewals of IP rights, recordal of changes in patent and trademark registers, licensing and enforcement of IP rights (litigation and anti-counterfeiting).

Our client base includes numerous large international corporations, well-known domestic enterprises, SMEs, start-ups as well as research centers and universities, representing businesses across diverse sectors and technology areas.

Client satisfaction is our priority. In each case our specialists look for the best solution to meet our clients’ needs and expectations. An individual and creative approach to all tasks, supported by profound legal and technical knowledge, has earned us the trust of our clients.

POLSERVICE and its attorneys are members of international organizations gathering companies and individuals dealing with IP: AIPPI, INTA, ECTA, LES, UNION, MARQUES, FICPI and EPI. Our attorneys/We participate in numerous meetings, conferences and trainings, also as lecturers or moderators. Personal achievements and experience gained throughout many years of professional activity at the international level have allowed many of our attorneys to become leaders of these organizations.

Our computerized IP record management system enables us to safely store, manage and process information and provide services efficiently, quickly and accurately.

POLSERVICE is continually developing and improving measures to ensure our clients a high level of security and compliance with laws and other regulations. For this purpose, we maintain an Information Security Management System and a personal data security system based on the ISO/IEC 27001 standard.

Firm overview

Over the last century we’ve been lucky enough to have played a part in protecting some of the world’s most ground-breaking inventions and high profile brands. You can trust us to know IP law inside out, to be curious, and to connect the dots to reach solutions others don’t.

We will provide you with a team, rich in real-world experience, comprising experts who have worked at the forefront of pioneering technologies. A substantial number of our lawyers hold qualifications in scientific or technical fields, meaning we are often called upon for our specialist knowledge and insight on large international mandates. We are respected for our creative and original solutions.

We offer both litigation and transactional support in relation to all IP rights, from small innovative projects to the largest, most complex and ground-breaking transactions and disputes.

Our approach has always been centred on client service, collaborating and innovating with our clients to create bespoke solutions that make their lives easier. This includes: our 'twobirds Pattern' product, a proprietary, in-house patent valuation and analysis tool, that allows us to landscape, analyse, and value patent portfolios in an automated and sophisticated way; and our innovative and dynamic Brand Protection Reporting Portal, which uses dynamic charts that give clients an up-to-date overview of their risk profile at any given time.

Talk to us to find out how our tools, experience and our genuine passion for IP can help you devise a strategy that will help to maintain your competitive edge, whilst protecting and optimising your IP in the best way possible.

Internationally Bird & Bird has over 400 IP lawyers, attorneys and legal professionals across our 29 offices, many of whom have known each other and worked together for years, meaning we're all on the same page and offer consistency and quality that runs through all levels of seniority. We are therefore ideally placed to devise and coordinate multi-jurisdictional litigation strategies and,in the future, to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court.

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